Australia’s Vaccine Rollout; Roll Out the Barrel By Brian Simpson
Here for your reading pleasure is the latest info on Australia’s covid-19 vaccination rollout, or lack of it. Not a lot of Aussies are taking the plunge, by contrast to Americans who are getting the jab in vast numbers. But, that might lead to stronger tactics. I suggest hot chicken dinners, where people can tuck into roast chicken with vegies, plenty of greasy gravy, and a nice big syringe. It may just work in the winter cold. Oh, and hot chocolate with oodles of lovely sugar, well known to do tremendous things, as a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. If ScoMo will hire me, I can come up with much grander ideas.
“Fewer than 8% of Australian adults fully vaccinated four months into rollout.
Fewer than 40% of Australia’s oldest and most vulnerable citizens have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 more than four months into the rollout, new data shows.
The federal health department released detailed data on Thursday on the status of Australia’s vaccine rollout.
It shows 6.11 million people over the age of 16 (about 30%) have had a single dose and just 1.63 million people, or 7.92%, were fully vaccinated.
The data, which breaks down vaccination by age and gender, shows full vaccination rates are still below 40% for all age cohorts in their 80s and 90s.
About 35,000, or 67.1%, of those aged 95 and over have received a first dose and 20,311 (38.4%) have received a second dose.
Full vaccination rates for the 90-94, 85-89 and 80-84 age brackets were 29.8%, 20.2%, and 15.7% respectively.
The data also shows a continued low rate of two-dosevaccination for those aged in their 50s and 60s, compared with the younger cohort of people aged in their 40s – which can be explained at least in part by the 12-week wait for a second dose of AstraZeneca, which is recommended for those over 60, and until recently for those over 50. The two Pfizer doses are generally given only three weeks apart.
Australia’s vaccine rollout began on 20 February. People over 50 have been eligible for vaccination since 3 May.
About 105,062, or 6.7%, of Australians aged 50 to 54 have received both doses, and 34.3% have received a first dose, while about 99,425 (6.4%) of people aged 55 to 59 are fully vaccinated. The figures are worse for those aged in their 60s.
About 90,000 people, or 6.3%, aged 60 to 64 have received both doses, while 71,314, or 5.7%, of people aged 65 to 69 are fully vaccinated.”
Good to know, now I will go to bed and sleep the sleep of the unvaccinated, I mean, innocent.
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